## 1920 YEAR
offensive, arrive in a timely manner and that at the next session of the Council of Labour and Defence practical proposals on this question will be submitted.

## ON THE SUPPLY OF THE ARMY

Instruct the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic to distribute the three million rations being issued in such a manner that the reduction falls entirely on rear institutions and units not going into combat.

## ON THE SUPPLY OF AUSTRO-GERMAN PRISONERS WITH FOOD RATIONS AT THE RAILWAY WORKERS' RATE DURING WORK ON THE RAILWAYS

Permit the export of 15,000 qualified workers from Siberia—Austro-German prisoners—and oblige Komprod to supply them with provisions according to the railway workers' ration rate.

Chairman of the Council of Labour and Defence

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from Protocol No. 129 of the session of the Council of Labour and Defence of 11 June 1920.

# RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF LABOUR AND DEFENCE
## 11 JUNE 1920

1) Impose upon Moskvotop and the NKPS the obligation to transport within a three-week period all firewood available at railway stations within a thirty-verst zone around Moscow, in the quantity of approximately 3,000 cubic sazhens.

2) For the purpose of optimal utilization of empty cars, impose upon the local organs of the transport department of the VChK the obligation to establish strict control over the full loading of cars (not less than 3 cubic sazhens per car); moreover, responsibility for cars arriving incompletely loaded at the control unloading points is placed upon the aforementioned agents of the Transport Department of the VChK. Simultaneously with this, impose upon the VSNKh the obligation to supply the NKPS within one week with a sufficient quantity of lead and twine for sealing firewood cars.

3) The NKPS, Glavtop, and Moskvotop are instructed to place under special accounting the forthcoming campaign for ensuring Moscow and major industrial cities with wood fuel.

Chairman of the Council of Labour and Defence

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin.

# TELEGRAM TO THE COUNCIL OF THE CAUCASIAN LABOUR ARMY
## 12 June 1920

According to information received from the representative of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply, based on data from dispatchers, it is evident: in May, 306 cars of grain cargo shipped in April–early May arrived in Petrovsk for Baku, of which 273 cars were delivered to Baku; during the first nine days of June, 65 cars of grain cargo arrived in Baku, and besides this, several routes passed through Georgievsk to Petrovsk. Apart from this, the dispatcher summary from 9 June establishes: according to the extraordinary order of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply to Petrovsk for Baku, 377 cars have already been loaded at various stations; 116 cars arrived in Petrovsk from 25 May to 9 June, 201 cars are en route (the latest information is incomplete).

Perceiving from these data that the representation of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply at the Caucasian Labour Army Council has taken and is taking sufficient measures to ensure the provision of oil workers with food, and that any interference by other organs, such as the North Caucasian Revolutionary Committee, Revolutionary Councils of armies, and their separate actions in the sphere of procurement and commodity exchange are capable only of introducing disorder into the improving matter of supplying Baku and must be eliminated immediately,—the Council of Labour and Defence